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(Unleashed) Great Sage Sun Wukong

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Even the heavens are at a loss as to how to deal with Sun's arrogance. Strong, crafty and all but invincible, his rampage seems to know no end.

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One of the most enduring Chinese literary characters, Sun Wukong has a varied background and colorful cultural history. He is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West (Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xīyóujì) written by Wu Cheng'en. In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.

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